It might not sound all that exciting that it took me 3 months to find a new job, but word has it that tech hiring is much slower this year compared to last year. I have friends who have been out of work for close to a year at this…

With TDD, Context, and Hooks — It’s been over a year since I wrote Can We All Just Admit React Hooks Were a Bad Idea? Part 1 SOLID reasons why hooks are a bad ideamedium.com Several people asked me what I considered SOLID architecture, and I said I’d answer that when I got around to it. Over the past week or so, I did a refactor that was simple enough to write a case study around, yet…

The useReducer hook is similar to the useState hook, but where useState works best for managing primitive values (e.g. strings, numbers, and boolean values), useReducer excels at manipulating Objects with multiple properties. // useState (from react docs): const [name, setName] = useState('Taylor'); // useReducer (from react docs): function reducer(state, action) { //…

I really wanted to love Next 13. — I was stoked when I started hearing about Next 13 a couple of months ago. I had some time on my hands, so I thought I’d do an example project to kick the tires. The big thing that had me so excited was the new streamed HTML capability. I’d read…

Companies may well cost-cut themselves into a corner. Everyone is speculating about the impact of AI on tech workers. At this point, experts and the general public are divided on whether AI will cause job losses or job gains overall. …

I keep hearing about the new Apple Savings Account, including this breathless story about how it offers 4.15%. My checking account currently offers 5% if you meet all the conditions, so I wasn’t sure what all the fuss was. On the other hand, my actual savings account is only giving…

The GitHub Actions, running the Jest tests Since I currently am looking for work, I naïvely decided to take a couple of days to teach myself DevOps and blog about it so I actually remember what I learned. In Part 1 of this series, I got my example React project…

Setting up all the AWS stuff (we hope). In Part 1 of this series, I got my project Dockerized so that I could send it out into the world to be hosted anywhere that can consume a Docker container. My prediction for this part (Part 2) was: Next up, we’ll…

Setting up the local environment. What Are We Doing, and Why? If you go looking for a definition of DevOps, there are a lot of words thrown around that don’t tell you a whole lot of much. If you want the definition, go ask ChatGPT. For my purposes, DevOps basically means that when you push a…